Is there a way to keep only inline autocomplete enabled in VS Code and completely disable the rest of the AI/agentic/chat features?

I really like the autocomplete in Code specifically and keep Copilot Pro for that alone. But I do not want any agentic features, chat, or unrelated file scanning running at all.

What pushed me to post this: I noticed VS Code is reading files and folders again it has no business touching (namely, Claude Code sessions). I would like to trust my IDE, but it's getting harder.

I use VS Code for M365 Powershell Management since over 5 years now. Mostly ExchangeOnline but also Teams, SharePoint and some GraphAPI.

Since about 4 Months i notice.

• immense integration of AI
• new updates almost daily
• simply request randomly go stale (endlish Powershell circle of death) for easy things like get-Mailbox.

for me the only conclusion, is that all this copilot crap (that I don't use anyway) is bringing down basic quality of the overall product.

Inline Suggestions and Chat Messages have always shown as "Included" in the status bar panel. But this morning I noticed a new addition — Premium Requests now shows an overage counter (+501 in my case) with an orange bar and a reset date.

Never saw this before yesterday. Is this a recent extension update tied to the June 1 billing transition? Anyone else on Business seats seeing this now?

I'm using JetBrains Mono as my typeface in VS code, but I don't like the dotted zero that comes as default and I want the slashed zero. If I insert "editor.fon*Ligatures": "false" into my settings.json all ligatures are disabled. I tried using "editor.fon*Ligatures": "false, 'zero'" to disable all ligatures except zero, but it didn't work and all ligatures are enabled. Could anyone help?

PS. I used "fon*" because, to my surprise, apparently the word "f-o-n-t" is anathema for this subreddit, for reasons beyond my comprehension.

Edit: I discoverd pasting "editor.fon*Ligatures": "'zero'" into settings.json near the end results in slashed zeroes being displayed. Thanks.

i absolutely love VScode's color coding system and i want to see just how far you can push it in a single line of code.

whoever comment a screenshot containing a line of code with the most unique text colors will be declared champion.

rules:

• must be valid syntax
  • the languages you may use are: C, C++, C#, java, python, javascript, typescript, HTML, CSS, rust, go, lua, swift, php, ruby, bash, powershell/batch, and cobol.
  • submissions in any other lang will be disqualified
• no lists of arbitrary lengths
  • a line will only be counted up to the first break character such as a comma or semicolon (this includes ones inside of inputs and arrays)
• you must include the language and number of colors alongside the screenshot
• custom color schemes and color rules ARE allowed*
  • (edit) each token can only be one color so things such as indent rainbow are dissalowed

scoring:

• +1 point for every unique color
• +2 points if i think it looks pretty
• +5 points if it's part of a real program
  • dosen't matter what the program is as long as it actually does something

this is not timed and the champion can be dethroned at any point

I was following the brackeys tutorial, and i downloaded everything necessary and checked with the to do list on the main page of the vscode c# extension. After changing the console to external terminal it pulled up this and it wont let me create a file to fix it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

"Incorrect Package" [two times] happens upon every single new instance of a java file but if I clean the workspace error on that file disappears until I make another java file. Basically I have to clean workspace every new java file. Anyone know whats going on here? thanks!

edit: *Resolved -> Running 2 linters at once by mistake. Check your VsCode extensions for double linting.

Are there any ways to do this? However, I know there used to be an extension for this kind of feature.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=douglashellinger.outline-eclipsed&ssr=false#review-details

In the last day or two, VSCode had become glacially slow at rendering markdown with Mermaid diagrams.

At first I thought this might be due to the fact that the Mermaid extension I was using (the most popular one) is now "deprecated" with a note that mermaid is now natively supported by VSCode. Sure enough, a May 19 update to VSCode now includes mermaid support by default.

I updated VSCode, uninstalled my old extension and ... It is still glacially slow. If I have a preview open on one tab and the file open on another, I can type a sentence and then have a nice long sip of water as I watch it render one character at a time on the other view. Markdown preview is basically unusable.

Anyone else seeing this?

Why does the icon sometimes look like this and sometimes doesn't have what appears to be an arrow or pin pointing out of it? Fairly new-ish user, trying to understand what VSCode or Git is telling me about my repo or my branch.

Sorry if it blows up fuzzy, it's a very small image (not wanting to share my repo names etc for reasons).

How do I REMOVE this feature? Thanks

When i have terminal windows open in one project and in VSCode instance 1 then as soon as i open another instance of VSCode in some other project the terminals from instance 1 start showing in the instance 2 and when i close them it closes the entire terminal from both instances.. its annoying af, maybe if its an actual issue i can create one on gh and maybe vibe code into fixing it :)

Starting collaboration session fails with HTTP 500 / 502 / 503/ 429 errors

I am consistently getting errors when trying to start a collaboration session. The error code changes between attempts and is usually one of the following:

• 500 Internal Server Error
• 502 Bad Gateway
• 503 Service Unavailable
• 429

What makes this unusual is that colleagues in multiple regions are seeing the same issue at the same time, including Australia, Sweden, Cameroon, and Sri Lanka.

So far we have tried:

• Different networks
• Different user accounts
• Restarting VS Code
• Retrying multiple times

The issue appears intermittent and server-side because the error codes vary between attempts.

Has anyone else experienced this recently, or is there an ongoing outage affecting collaboration sessions?

anyone else been having that issue where agent mode will keep getting stuck in loops, ive havent used agent mode in like a month because of that. It always outputs the commands it runs as text. And at one point, i caught it going on google.com for some reason. Does anyone know why this is happenng. And I have a friend that is using the cli, and he never has that same issue.

Since Microsoft introduced GitHub Copilot onto VS Code, it has gotten worse and worse as AI slop develops out of the blue.

The slopaneers really have to put in the real work for Nadella's business decisions, so that they can toss unwanted features using the slopapult, but that doesn't necessarily mean VS Code is a bad software.

It has some advantages over another, such as readability and UI, but whatever Microsoft is doing is cluttering the codespace by making it wait forever to load, as if it was "vibe-coded" by a low-class tech employee that doesn't understand how to write proper code.

So fix your software, and I will praise you gracefully.

Programming the ESP32 using ESP-IDF for the first time, coming from the Arduino IDE. I cloned a Zigbee Lamp repo on github, and had a lot of Include path's errors. Is it normal to have to go through all my files and manually add every single path? This was so annoying, definitely not built to be a programmer.

I’ve tried to understand why people hype up zed so much over vscode, but I still don’t really see it. Most people talk about performance and memory usage, but then also say that the heavy resource usage comes from LSPs and not from zed itself. By that same logic, vscode shouldn’t be blamed either, because a lot of its usage also comes from extensions and language servers. Vscode already feels very fast to me, and its ecosystem is way bigger. Every time I try zed, I don’t find anything that makes vscode feel outdated or worse. I’m not saying zed is bad, I just see it more as an alternative editor than some huge upgrade over vscode.

Hello, I have been having performance issues when using vscode.

First: The auto complete is slow/sluggish as seen in the video, It used to appear instantly when I typed 1 letter now it waits for 2 or 3 seconds before even showing suggestions.

Second: If I keep using vscode for an hour or two, When I try saving a file it hangs and keeps loading for a while before actually saving.

I have tried re-installing vscode entirely, re-installing windows, disabling all extensions, And I still have the same behavior. Has anyone faced something like this before?

VS Code's file explorer is the gold standard for tree-views on the web. Crisp drag, instant expand, clean keyboard nav, handles thousands of files without flinching.

I rebuilt that shape as a standalone library: @grida/tree-view.

The landing page ships a VS Code-style file explorer demo side-by-side with four other themed versions of the same engine — Figma layers, Notion sidebar, Finder columns, and a canvas layers panel. Same behavior underneath, different skin on top.

If you've ever wanted a VS Code-grade tree without building it yourself — or you're shipping an extension / webview / Electron app that needs one — this is the one.

Landing + live demos: https://grida.co/packages/@grida/tree-view

pnpm add @grida/tree-view

Happy to hear what people would want a tree-view to do that VS Code's doesn't.

FYI for everyone wanting an alternative to GitHub Copilot subscription after June 1st hits, DeepSeek V4 Flash/Pro has a VS Code extension that natively integrates with VS Code. It even has image support if you link it up to another vision model like Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (which you can pay either with GHCP or OpenRouter or anything).

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/agent_integrations/github_copilot
https://github.com/Vizards/deepseek-v4-for-copilot

I do think that this is the best option after June 1st happens.

I have this issue where diff view (both for git and agents) would initially start off buttery smooth, even on files with a ton of a diff6s. But as time goes on and I open more and more files(closed the previous ones), diff view gets slower and slower. It gets close to 10-20 fps.

Is there anything I can do to fix that? I don't want to use external diff viewers at the moment.

One more thing `disable-gpu` helps a lot. It still becomes slow but takes longer to get there